Stanley Tucci stars in his own BBC food show where he travels across Italy to discover the country’s regional cuisines.
09.02.2022 - 14:55 / ok.co.uk
I’d always imagined our first Valentine’s Day as a married couple would be full of romance and passion. But on 14 February in 2019, I instead found myself lying on a hospital bed next to my husband Ciaran, who was going through chemotherapy. Sweetly, he’d still managed to get me a balloon and a teddy with some help from the nurses.
When he was first admitted to hospital, I slept on the chair next to him. When the nurses realised I’d never leave him at night, they set up a mattress on the floor. But for this special night, they went even further and moved an extra bed into his private room– he was susceptible to infection, so he had a private room anyway.
We held hands through the night. It definitely wasn’t what I imagined when I said “I do” but we were handling it all as a team, as we always did. A month earlier, we had been honeymooning in South Africa and the Maldives.
Paradise! Since our three-day Italian wedding, which included a barbecue and pizza party, life had been a dream. I was a PR manager and he was a software developer. After seven years together, we were finally married and excited about the next chapter.
Ciaran is handsome, funny and outgoing. He can talk to anyone but I felt lucky he’d chosen me. It sounds cliché but our wedding was the best day of my life.
Shock diagnosis I was so happy I never dreamed something sinister was around the corner. But when we walked up a mountain during the honeymoon, Ciaran got out of breath. I joked, “This is what happens at your age!” I was pleased he booked a doctor’s check-up for our return home but I wasn’t worried.
Stanley Tucci stars in his own BBC food show where he travels across Italy to discover the country’s regional cuisines.
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